Glossary

PlateSpin Protect’s workload protection infrastructure, such as a VM host.

Event

A PlateSpin Server message that contains information about important steps throughout the workload protection lifecycle.

Failback

Restoration of the business function of a failed workload in its original environment when the business function of a temporary failover workload within PlateSpin Protect is no longer required.

Failover

Taking over the business function of a failed workload by a failover workload within a PlateSpin Protect VM container.

Failover Workload

A protected workload’s bootable virtual replica.

Incremental

1. (noun) An individual scheduled transfer or manual transfer of differences between a protected workload and its replica (the failover workload).

2. (adjective) Describes the scope of replication (1), in which the initial replica of a workload is created differentially, based on differences between the workload and its prepared counterpart.

Prepare for Failover

A PlateSpin Protect operation that boots the failover workload in preparation of a full Failover operation.

Protection Tier

A customizable collection of workload protection parameters that define the frequency of replications and criteria for the system to consider a workload as failed.

Protection Contract

A collection of currently-active settings pertaining to the complete lifecycle of a workload’s protection (Add-inventory, initial and ongoing Replications, Failover, Failback, and Reprotect).

Recovery Point

A point-in-time snapshot, allowing a replicated workload to be restored to a previous state.

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Tolerable data loss measured in time and defined by a configurable interval between incremental replications of a protected workload.

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

A measure of a workload’s tolerable downtime defined by the time a failover operation takes to complete.

Replication

1. Initial Replication, the creation of an initial base copy of a workload. Can be carried out as a Full Replication (all workload data is transferred to a ‘blank’ failover VM), or as an Incremental Replication (see Incremental (2)).

2. Any transfer of changed data from a protected workload to its replica in the container.

Replication Schedule

The schedule that is set up to control the frequency and scope of replications.

Reprotect

A PlateSpin Protect command that reestablishes a protection contract for a workload following the failover and failback operations.

Source

A workload or its infrastructure that is the starting point of a PlateSpin Protect operation. For example, upon initial protection of a workload, the source is your production workload. In a failback operation, it is the failover workload in the container.

A workload or its infrastructure that is the outcome of a PlateSpin Protect command. For example, upon initial protection of a workload, the target is the failover workload in the container. In a failback operation, it is either your production workload’s original infrastructure or any supported container that has been inventoried by PlateSpin Protect.